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Xavier
Xavier

Reputation: 4017

Match Tabs in vim syntax file

I'm coding a syntax file for my todos with Vim Actually i highlight the lines when they begin with w:,h: or p: like this :

syn match todoHome  "^h: "
syn match todoWork  "^w: "
syn match todoPersonal  "^p: "
syn region todoHome start=/^h: / end=/\n/
syn region todoWork start=/^w: / end=/\n/
syn region todoPersonal start=/^p: / end=/\n/
syn region todoDone start=/^x: / end=/\n/

I would like to create some subtask with tabs and highlight it in the same way... I know regex can do that, i tried :

syn region todoWork start=/^|[\t ]+w: / end=/\n/

But it not works... Any clue ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 859

Answers (1)

kev
kev

Reputation: 161884

| => \|

:help pattern

1. A pattern is one or more branches, separated by "\|".  It matches anything
   that matches one of the branches.  Example: "foo\|beep" matches "foo" and
   matches "beep".  If more than one branch matches, the first one is used.

   pattern ::=      branch
        or  branch \| branch
        or  branch \| branch \| branch
        etc.

+ => \+

\+  1 or more   as many as possible (*)

Or add \v at the beginning of the pattern!

Use of "\v" means that in the pattern after it all ASCII characters except
'0'-'9', 'a'-'z', 'A'-'Z' and '_' have a special meaning.  "very magic"

Upvotes: 2

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